Economics

If Afghanistan Survives 2016, the UN Will Consider It a Success

  • Economy, insurgency, dissent, funding all seen as challenges
  • Failure will result in deeper crisis, not necessarily collapse

Ashraf Ghani, President of Afghanistan.

Photographer: Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images
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The United Nations has set a low bar for success in Afghanistan this year: Survival.

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